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The editorial of Figaro Magazine: “The master censors”

2024-02-02T06:21:47.165Z

Highlights: The nine members of the Constitutional Council dealt a very serious blow to the credibility of their institution by censoring, last week, most of the immigration law. The legal reason behind which they took shelter does not hold water. Who can seriously think that limiting family reunification or extending the time limits for accessing certain social assistance would not contribute to better immigration control? Yet this is what they claimed, asserting, to better censor them, that these measures were unrelated to the original object of the law. Who wants to drown their dog?


By censoring most of the immigration law last week, the Constitutional Council aggravated, whether it wanted to or not, the distrust of a large part of the French people towards its elites.


This article comes from Figaro Magazine

Were they aware of it?

The nine members of the Constitutional Council dealt a very serious blow to the credibility of their institution by censoring, last week, most of the immigration law.

The legal reason behind which they took shelter does not hold water: who can seriously think that limiting family reunification or extending the time limits for accessing certain social assistance would not contribute to better immigration control?

Yet this is what they claimed, asserting, to better censor them, that these measures were unrelated to the original object of the law.

Who wants to drown their dog...

The Constitutional Council

is not at its first attempt.

With his prerogatives, he regularly cancels measures aimed at curbing immigration, masterfully exploiting principles as vague as they are general (right to lead a normal family life, right to private life, etc.), which he opposes to …

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Source: lefigaro

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